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Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Don's Tuesday Column

THE WAY I SEE IT
by Don Polson Red
Bluff Daily News 6/06/2017

Violence, corruption for leftism ok

Numerous stories that have paraded across our
newspapers or TV screens have some not-so-hidden lessons. The increasing
frequency of stories almost overwhelms our ability to discern, let alone
retain, any longer term narratives or revelations. Here are some examples:

It is probably to former Democratic Presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton’s benefit that the “news caravan” has moved on from
her most recent speeches. She managed to simultaneously take full
responsibility for losing the election while adding to and expanding her list
of reasons why other people, groups (“white men”) and events beyond her control
were the reasons she lost.

It should be unsurprising that Republicans and Trump
voters find that such blame-shifting and “sour grapes” support our collective
rejection of Hillary; look up “Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of
Hillary Clinton” or “Sore Loser Hillary Clinton won’t go away” (Michael Walsh,
5/27). Given such narcissistic conspiracy-mongering, I must ask local liberals
if they still really wanted President Hillary—not why they despise President
Trump and wish he’d lost—to lead us with that fractured, warped mind?

Before answering, consider that “even the Left can’t
stand her constant bellyaching.” Such solid lefties as The New York Times’
Glenn Thrush (tweeted it’s “mea culpa-not-so-much” and she “blames everyone but
self”), and Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod (“Clinton said ‘I’m
responsible’ but apparently doesn’t feel that way”), are signaling that
Democrats should walk away. Walsh: “Let’s start with the most salient point: it
is utterly shameful for the defeated candidate to join a ‘resistance’ against
the lawfully elected winner, [just because] she lost.”

There is a shameful similarity of psychosis, perhaps,
in the pathetic way so-called “comedian” Kathy Griffin seamlessly transitioned
from sick purveyor of “Trump-beheading-as-performance-art” to tear-streaked
victim of the justifiable outrage from conservatives in general, and the Trump
family in particular. Don’t forget the “kill (and behead) Bush” themes from
lefties in college papers, plays, books and protest posters and signs; violence
flows from their ideology.

Look up “How The American Left Made Political Violence
the New Normal,” by Ben Shapiro, written after the multiple episodes of leftist
violence against Trump supporters last summer. “Liberals Embrace Violence,” by
J. Hinderaker, included a video montage of liberals advocating, even
committing, political violence. “Their recently-defeated vice-presidential
nominee, Tim Kaine, has called on his fellow liberals to become street fighting
men.”

Then there’s the serious potential of violence against
undercover CIA agents, one of whose identity was recently blown by the New York
Times (“New York Times defends decision to identify undercover CIA agent,” by
Eddie Scarry, 6/02). Remember, the NYT led the charge against the revelation of
(non-clandestine agent) Valerie Plame’s CIA employment. It was, in their
collective liberal news organs’ view, nearly treasonous; never mind that her
husband, Joe Wilson, and Richard Armitage of the State Dept. were actually
responsible for the revelation. Nevertheless, now that despised Republican
Donald Trump is the President, a genuine act of perfidy—naming the CIA’s head
of operations related to Iran—must now be just a civic duty.

Now, let’s turn to “The Scandal Hiding in Plain Sight”
(powerlineblog.com) or, as circa.com writers John Solomon and Sara Carter
opined, “Obama intel agency secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans
for years” (May 24). You’ve not likely heard much about it, what with all the
“trumped up” conspiracy theories over Russia/Trump collusion in the election. A
rather loaded, almost rhetorical, question headed a USA Today column by Glenn
Reynolds, University of Tennessee law professor and proprietor of
pjmedia.com/instapundit: “Was Obama administration illegal spying worse than
Watergate?” Why report real news when fake is easier?

Solomon and Carter based their reporting and analysis
on recently declassified documents, pointing to the title they gave their
circa.com piece: “The National Security Agency under former President Barack
Obama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through
overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the
final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall, according to
once top-secret documents that chronicle some of the most serious
constitutional abuses to date by the U.S. intelligence community…

“The normally supportive (FISA) court censured
administration officials, saying that the failure to disclose the extent of the
violations earlier amounted to an ‘institutional lack of candor,’ and that the
improper searches constituted a ‘very serious Fourth Amendment issue,’
according to a recently unsealed court document dated April 26.” (lengthy quote
needed for accurate analysis) Another piece, by Debra Heine at pjmedia.com on
5/30, provides the rhetorical answer, “Shock: Complete MSM News Blackout on NSA
Illegal Spying Bombshell.”

You owe it to yourself to go to DonPolson.blogspot.com
where I’ve posted links to those articles; you can decide for yourself whether
we are witnessing the complete flipping of the vaunted themes the news industry
has given itself: “Speak truth to power” (unless you are a virtual mouthpiece
for the ideology whose power you support). A widely-acclaimed quote from Finley
Peter Dunne said that journalism is “to afflict the comfortable and comfort the
afflicted.” I guess that no longer applies if the comfortable are liberals and
the afflicted are conservatives.

The above may rightly shock readers on the
right; progressives and liberals will probably rationalize this all away
because political, journalistic corruption is ok if it advances leftism.

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